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I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe when I read these types of posts. My agents have never created code that is straight-up garbage and I have never flushed a week's worth of tokens down the toilet. I just can't identify with all the constant complaints about AI-assisted coding. And my biggest project isn't some hello world app. It's a self-hosted, privacy-focused personal financial management application t…
Anthropic especially right now seem to be optimising for doing the whole task with no input. That's fine when that's the only task, and it's fine when you don't care how the sausage is made, but it's not fine for actual software engineering.
Hyperbolic, but I'm seeing hints of this – Models refusing to do pair work with an engineer and trust their input, instead mandating having full control over something. Friends switching back from Fable/Opus 5 to Opus 4.8 just so they can have some input. Anthropic especially right now seem to be optimising for doing the whole task with no input. That's fine when that's the only task, and it's fine when you don't car…
I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe when I read these types of posts. My agents have never created code that is straight-up garbage and I have never flushed a week's worth of tokens down the toilet. I just can't identify with all the constant complaints about AI-assisted coding. And my biggest project isn't some hello world app. It's a self-hosted, privacy-focused personal financial management application t…
Instead of paying for multiple apps that do small parts of it, I use existing codex subscription to make it better.
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> i'm not sure why people expect agents to one shot everything to perfection with just a prompt. because that's how agents are marketed.
we should exercise critical thinking then heaps of people on this site expect them to be omnipotent then claim it’s fake when it doesn’t read minds
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I'll try to explain my experience with this. I've noticed the AI has a tendency to overengineer scaffolding. For instance, I asked it to help me with a refactor, and it erected this massive 100kloc function registry, and then caused GitHub CI to verify the contracts every single commit, which took upwards of 30 minutes (I suspect this proclivity is widespread and has contributed to their recent issues). As if this wa…
Don’t get me wrong, I agree. I see Fable and Opus 5 write garbage code and useless tests all the time. And don’t get me started on comments. I’m just trying to understand how vibe coders are to blame for it.
I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe when I read these types of posts. My agents have never created code that is straight-up garbage and I have never flushed a week's worth of tokens down the toilet. I just can't identify with all the constant complaints about AI-assisted coding. And my biggest project isn't some hello world app. It's a self-hosted, privacy-focused personal financial management application t…
I just did what the article says. My own Open-Source Kanban Board and I've published a month ago. According to the metrics, it's doing well: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/fancy-kanban
And I've also made the personal finance tracker as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4P4kL4IkQ
Now, one caveat. I don't vibe code with one shot prompt. I use something called Micromanaged Driven Development (MMDD) which aims to be the opposite of one-shot prompt: https://mmdd.dev/
When I read articles like these, it surprises me that it's very unusual for me to hit token limits. I've standard accounts, I don't spend more than $40 per months in tokens.
Probably I couldn't find the right narrative to promote MMDD, or probably nobody cares and this is why you fall easily into clickbait narratives to get people's attention these days.
Not justifying, just trying to describe a perception.
I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe when I read these types of posts. My agents have never created code that is straight-up garbage and I have never flushed a week's worth of tokens down the toilet. I just can't identify with all the constant complaints about AI-assisted coding. And my biggest project isn't some hello world app. It's a self-hosted, privacy-focused personal financial management application t…
I signed up to say I’m also in the personal finance management camp. Scraping all financial institutions, AI can categorize things that I previously did manually, able to do tax projections, retirement analysis, categorize individual items in Amazon purchases, analyze travel purchases with points vs cash. Instead of paying for multiple apps that do small parts of it, I use existing codex subscription to make it bette…
How are you scraping? Have you had success across institutions?